login | register
0 film ratings
PSI
?
Probable Score
?
On-the-Waterfront
Stream it now
Amazon VideoApple TVGoogle Play MoviesVuduMicrosoft StoreYouTube
AMC on Demand
DIRECTV
Spectrum On Demand
On-the-Waterfront
On-the-Waterfront

On the Waterfront

1954
Romance, Drama
1h 48m
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two of Johnny's thugs, and later meets the dead man's sister and feels responsible for his death. She introduces him to Father Barry, who tries to force him to provide information for the courts that will smash the dock racketeers. (IMDB.com)
Stream it now
Amazon VideoApple TVGoogle Play MoviesVuduMicrosoft StoreYouTube
AMC on Demand
DIRECTV
Spectrum On Demand
Probable score
?
PSI Calculation

Ratings & Reviews

Sort by
Sort By
Rated
26th
65
Good, but not especially impressive. It's mostly the performances that make it decent. It's hard to watch this without considering the personal implications it had for Kazan. Also, the score is unbearably oppressive.
Rated
50th
75
One of the worst musical scores of all time single-handedly manages to knock this one down from "great" to just "good" for me. Perhaps its greatest achievement is introducing a new, more naturalistic style of acting to Hollywood. The story is good, but it doesn't blow me away.
Rated
88th
89
I know people are sick and tired of hearing this, but here it is: Marlon Brando is the shit. His performance is absolutely stellar, and Eva Marie Saint is smokin. But Lee J Cobb really stands out in this, I don't know if it is because I adore him in 12 Angry Men, but Cobb is the man. This is a terrific film, and ahead of its time, but Brando's on screen presence, and Kazan's directing are certainly the high points of this classic film.
Rated
43rd
50
The behaviour of director Kazan during the McCarthy period tends to put into even starker relief the questionable politics of this movie about union corruption. If the movie is intended as a defense of that behaviour, then in my view it fails. Although Brando's acting has been justly celebrated, the film is, in the end, a rather simplistic, melodramatic, and over-praised morality play.
Rated
70th
4
The historic significance of this film stands entirely on the shoulders of Brando's stellar performance, which, though perhaps not the greatest of all-time, is certainly in the conversation. There are some other fine performances as well, notably Lee J. Cobb (who kicks ass in everything), but nothing else about this movie really screams greatness. It's still very good, though.
Avg Percentile 71.92% from 3603 total ratings
Detailed
|
Compact

Similar Titles

Loading ...

Statistics

Loading ...

Update History

Submitted bytigrretigrre on 16 Mar 2006
Last modified by:dunstan_xxxDunstan-xxx on 18 Dec 2019